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minor #6517 Add a warning about using same user for cli and web serve…
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This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.3 branch (closes #6517).

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Add a warning about using same user for cli and web server

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Doc fix?      | yes
| New docs?     | no
| Applies to    | all
| Fixed tickets | ---

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1214ecc Add a warning about using same user for cli and web server
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configuration (e.g. commonly httpd.conf or apache2.conf for Apache) and setting
its user to be the same as your CLI user (e.g. for Apache, update the ``User``
and ``Group`` values).

.. caution::

If used in a production environment, be sure this user only has limited privileges
(no access to private data or servers, launch of unsafe binaries, etc.)
as a compromised server would give to the hacker those privileges.

**2. Using ACL on a system that supports chmod +a (MacOS X)**

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